I hope your complaints are about social games and not competitive. Gears is a team oriented game. It's not a lancer fest. Lancers have their place just as much as shotguns do. In ranked modes, a great team has teammates lancering to support those rushing in with shotguns. Cover fire is important, and the more coordination a team has (lancering from good angles), the more wins you'll have. All rifles are essential to Gears, and what I get most out of the game is when my teammates and I mesh well and support each other. The're no better feeling that playing against a good team and having complete control of the map, with my team applying pressure from our lancers and not letting them breathe.
Don't get me wrong, the shotgun defines Gears. In my squad we try to have roles and I'm always the slayer, I wall bounce and rack up kills. But I also respect and acknowledge I win my gunfights more because someone has my back. I don't believe the lancer is cheap or overpowered, it complements the shotgun nicely.
I'm not saying your way of playing the game is wrong, but I am saying that if you're trying to take the game serious, you might need better teammates who will counter their lancering. I agree, it would be boring having their whole team lancering and your team getting downed left and right because you guys are only trying to push forward with shotguns.
I do agree everything should be competitive 2.0. I hate core settings so much.
I don't know about taking it serious, I'm an onyx king player so Im not nearly at the top level of players. Any my team does counter the lancer fire, we often win games thanks to countering rifles, I'm not getting rinsed pit rushing over and over again.
My point is that's boring as fuck. The shotgun does define Gears. Gears 1 and UE had it right that rifles should be secondary always.
All you have to do is play king on any Classic maps to see how fucking boring rhe rifles make things. The maps don't work with the core weapons tuning.
You can tell me to adjust and play the game the way it is, but I'll forever find that boring as all hell. As it is, I play Gears always hopping we play a team that just runs shotties and doesnt sit back raining rifles.
Every game since Gears 1 has tried to better implement the rifles, and every time I'm sitting here scratching my head wondering why they don't just enphasise the very thing that made Gears 1 a successful breath of fresh air, the shotgun battle.
Comp 2.0 does a good job of this, there's still a place for rifles but it's majority shotgun. Now they just need to leave the casual friendly settings for social and let us have the 2.0 settings in Koth and Competitive. It's beyond stupid that as of now there's 3 tunings at the same time.
Apply one across the board. And please make it 2.0
They're fun.
